Have spent the last 4 days on the Ashby and are moored up for the night by bridge 13 on our journey back to Hawesbury Junction. Must admit have been a little dissapointed with the Ashby but did enjoy the peace and quiet. We now have to spend about 4 weeks going here and there before our friends Steve and Angelique arrive on 12th Sept to spend a week with us. Will be lovely to see them again as they are real good mates. Paul and Steve both had Goldwings, we took ours to Spain Steve sold his and is now a BMW bike owner. I think while we are killing time we may pop up to Warwick but nothing is set in stone as no sooner have I made plans we decide to do something different. We will be stopping in Rugby so looks like a big shop at Tesco and a visit to Homebase is on the cards.
Paul has had no luck with the fishing while being on the Ashby so has been a bit disheartened but I'm sure once we are back on the Oxford his luck will change. At least we have had one whole day without rain. Since we have been moored up we have been invaded by wasps dont know if we have a nest somewhere. The dogs think the wasps are fair game and should be chased not a good idea. Paul has looked in all the obvious places with no joy will just have to see if any more appear. Failing that I will just have to get the dogs off the boat and spray that way I will hopefully kill the little blighters.
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- After years of working,Paul and I retired early. I worked in accounts departments and Paul spent 39 years as an Electrical Mechanical engineer in the industrial refrigeration industry. Paul also served time as a refrigeration engineer officer with P&O, to-ing and fro-ing to NZ. In 2001 we decided to move to Spain where we bought an old Spanish finca that needed total renovation. We took our 1500 Goldwing with us to Spain planning to explore the country. But because of the amount of work that needed doing to the finca we were unable to get full use of our lovely motorbike. So it was shipped back to England where it was sold. It took us 3 1/2 years to finish the house, by which time Paul was hankering after another bike so we bought a new Honda VTX 1300 cruiser which was a pleasure to use with our biker friends. In 2007 the writing was on the wall so we decided to return to the UK and bought our lovely narrowboat which was a big step for me as I had never dreamt of living on a narrowboat. Paul has had sailing boats in the past and regulary crewed on a Medway Bawley Gaffer and raced in many local events. We are continuous cruisers planning to explore as much as we can.
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